The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is poised to start layoffs, with approximately 7,000 employees set to be unemployed starting this Thursday. The layoffs primarily affect probationary employees with less than a year of service at the agency, including staff in compliance departments. This move comes in the middle of tax filing season, and the impact on tax collection services this year is unclear. Meanwhile, the Senate Committee has advanced Linda McMahon’s nomination as Trump’s Education Secretary with a vote of 12-11, with McMahon, the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), having served in Trump’s first administration. What lies behind these events, hidden beneath the surface of the political games?